Feminist Gloria Steinem calls women around the world to speak up and fight for their rights.
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem would not be so meek “or worried about approval” if she had her life again.
“I would have done things faster. I would have been less hesitant. I knew what I wanted to do but I was a little worried about approval, especially when there was no movement in my life,” she added.“Not to be outrageous just to break a stereotype – because that is also dictating our behavior – but to do our best to be authentic and to be who we are and use our talents and refuse to be turned back,” she added.
Steinem said her own “big click” feminist epiphany came when she was working at New York Magazine in the late 1960s.“When I first covered an abortion hearing – which was a great revelation to me because I was suddenly seeing women talking about something that only happened to women and taking it seriously –my male colleagues took me aside one by one and said, ‘Oh, Gloria, do not get involved with these crazy women. You have worked so hard to be taken seriously.
She dedicated “My Life on the Road” to a British doctor, John Sharpe, who helped her obtain an illegal abortion London in 1957 when she was 22, “knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate”. In the book she credits her father, a travelling salesman, for giving her both itchy feet and a sense of equality – despite the fact that he deserted the family, leaving his daughter to deal with debt collectors at the door.
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